Kiandra Collins

@MateoDeLaMoska @Hebro_Steele Easy. Because it's the law. However if you want to get rid of the law completely , fine. But that's a different conversation than anyone is having.

@Hebro_Steele I’m starting to come full circle on this. If I own a business and I want to hire only black women, why can’t I? Why can’t I hire Muslim men only? Or only disabled women over 50? Why not? It’s MY business.

There are actually people out here who believe white folks aren’t covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I can't believe how many people have told me that this is not the case. Even heard it from a Cornell University professor two weeks ago. They’re wrong. Here’s the actual wording: “It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer — (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” “Any individual.” “Such individual's race.” That’s the law. It's race-neutral with no DEI carve-outs. Anyone who has been discriminated should sue.

@TheChris_Dude @AviBittMD @MattWalshBlog I think it can be justified with the idea that they have lost the right for us to continue spending money on them. I recognize that at the current time, because of the regulatory cost it actually takes more to kill them. However this can be changed. It should be "cheap".

@AviBittMD @MattWalshBlog I just don't understand the point of the death penalty at all morally. You aren't stopping harm. You aren't protecting anyone. The only reasonable justification for killing someone seems like it would be self defense or defending others. Death penalty does neither.

I am challenging any death penalty opponent — there are millions of them, allegedly — to step up to the plate right now and explain why this guy should not be executed. His guilt is established beyond any doubt whatsoever. His crime is utterly savage and heinous. Tell us why he doesn’t deserve to die. Go ahead.

@WiselyUncertain @cremieuxrecueil I'm not sure most of the concern is it being able to be absorbed or not. The point is that some amino acids stimulate things like MPS and others don't. So the amino acids themselves that are provided are important as they are the actual building blocks.

@cremieuxrecueil I assume poor bioavailability of certain proteins is due to specific the amino acids that compromise that protein. My question is if you have a poor protein, collagen, but with a high quality one like whey can the body then absorb all of the grams from the collagen?

The reason I'm asking this has to do with something called PDCAAS—the Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score. This is a little-known but important part of nutrition labeling in the United States, and especially if you're nutrition-conscious. The % Daily Value (%DV) that you see on nutrition labels tells you the protein content in grams out of the recommended daily amount of 50 grams. Simple enough, right? It's simple in theory, but the reality is that the %DV is graded by the bioavailability of the protein. This means that if something says 30 grams of protein, it might actually have 20 that are bioavailable. If it's a high-quality protein source, then that 30 grams of protein will be 60% of the recommended value, but if it's low-quality, and thus not very bioavailable, it'll be a smaller percentage. To figure out how this is calculated, we have to turn to the Code of Federal Regulations. If you'd like to follow along, please turn to 21 CFR 101.9(c)(7)(ii). It reads: "The 'corrected amount of protein (gram) per serving' for foods represented or purported for adults and children 1 or more years of age is equal to the actual amount of protein (gram) per serving multiplied by the amino acid score corrected for protein digestibility. If the corrected score is above 1.00, then it shall be set at 1.00." The method for determining this protein bioavailability measure is detailed in the "Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Protein Quality Evaluation" and the bioavailability is scaled relative to casein protein. Now, unfortunately, companies are not required to list the %DV even if they have to list the protein content—as assessed by nitrogen analysis— if the product does not claim to be "high protein" or it's not marketed for infants or children ages 1-3. So, OK, why am I asking for the %DV? Why can't I just use the provided grams of protein? I'm asking for the %DV because it's not listed on the product—a serious red flag—and I'm not able to use the grams of protein listed on the label, because I don't know how high-quality the protein in the product is. Consider Beyond Meat as an example. Beyond Meat 3.0 had high-quality protein: a 20g serving was 40% of the recommended daily amount and a 40g serving was 80%. Simple enough! But Beyond Meat 4.0 is worse. Where 21g of protein should be 42% of the Daily Value, it's 34% instead, and that 34% is rounded up—42 grams of the protein in Beyond Meat 4.0 is really only 67% of the Daily Value, because the protein is not very high-quality! Now it should be clear why I'm asking. Tons of companies hype their products as high-protein, when the reality is that the protein in their products is not very high-quality and the bioavailability could be poor. I want to know, and customers deserve to know, what the protein quality is like in every product they're presented with. If these thirty grams of protein in a delicious sparkling water are not high-quality, then I'm going to be a lot less happy about this product than I would be otherwise. But even though I might end up unhappy about the product, I feel I still deserve to know the truth. Sources: ecfr.gov/current/title-… greenqueen.com.hk/beyond-meat-he… P.S. The 50 grams of protein thing is for adults and children four and older. It's 11 grams for infants through twelve months, 13 grams for children 1-3, and 71 grams for pregnant and lactating mothers.

@loves_faust @cremieuxrecueil Yes, I suspected this but didn't know using the dv% could help you actual infer protein quality. Very disappointing about the puff bars. Seems useless to me as anything more than filling the "hungry and need to eat something regardless of macros" slot now.

@cremieuxrecueil Super understated fact. Even with protein bars you'll see this. For example, Built bars taste fire but they're shit protein compared to something like Quest Not to be a shill but Quest had always had good bioavailability in their products. Big fan

@Princess_Raeana @chriswithans Someone has to pay for that. Americans would rather pay less for things and deal with the consequences.

Why are you running your team so lean that if one person is out for 6 months the others can't redistribute? That's the problem with the US. We take everything to the barebones and act like that's normal. I'm not saying anyone should overstaff, but I'm saying that if the barebones is 2 people to run a store (1 dedicated cashier, 1 to do security/ordering/stock, cover the cashier) that you should always have 3 people scheduled. But the US takes it as have 2 people scheduled and its okay if the store has to close for a half an hour for staff to take a lunch.. doesn't account for you know biology if someone has to use the bathroom or the inconvenience caused by closing for 30 minutes. Or having boxes sitting in the aisles every day while the employees try to juggle everything.. I mean hell, they could have 2 full time people and then a part time person mid-day to help take breaks, run a 2nd register, etc. But nope, instead of employing someone even part time, they close for 30 minutes..

I’m serious about paid leave. Yeah, it’s fine for the public sector when the taxpayer pays the bill and most of the work is fake. How do people think it works in the private sector? You have a team of six people. One person goes AWOL for six months. What do you think happens to the other five people?

@andy_bumstead @DKThomp That is exactly how institutions lose trust. Congratulations.

@DKThomp Meh. Condense any health advice to a tag line and it will be the same. The object shouldn't be to get it "right" it should be to drive better health outcomes. If UPF does that, great. If not, find something else that will.

UFPs are not fake. Cheetos are not raw carrots, and people eat Cheetos differently than they eat raw carrots, and it’s okay to use different words and categories to describe them. But in fairness, the UPF category is hilariously vague. Whole wheat bread with one preservative is a UPF. So is a Twinkie. The idea that both of these things deserve the same label is stupid. Caloric surplus/deficit is absolutely critical for weight and health , and UPFs are engineered to go down in a whoosh with v high caloric density; that’s probably why small RCTs have shown they reliably lead to overeating and weight gain. Ultraprocessed snack food puts a lot of people in chronic caloric surplus bc they’re so easy to eat quickly without feeling full, whereas you don’t hear a lot about ppl eating raw carrots to the point of obesity. Nutrition science is hard and under-funded, but keeping the main thing the main thing here: Chronic caloric surplus is bad and a lot of UPF is significantly associated with higher calorie intake. (And we shouldn’t be putting skull and bones labels on whole wheat bread from Trader Joe’s.)

@heyshrutimishra @grok can you explain what it is that actually got leaked? Can you run the equivalent (albeit slower?) anthropic llm using this code?

Anthropic leaked 512,000 lines of Claude Code source code yesterday. What happened in the next 12 hours is absolutely wild. 4 AM. Anthropic pushes an update to npm. Inside the package: their entire codebase. A 60 MB debugging file accidentally bundled in. 23 minutes later, researcher Chaofan Shou spots it. Downloads the zip. Posts it on X. Within 6 hours: 3 million views. By the time Anthropic’s team woke up, the code was forked 41,000+ times across GitHub. Anthropic started firing DMCA takedowns. Too late. A Korean developer named Sigrid Jin woke up to his phone exploding. He’s Claude Code’s biggest power user. WSJ reported he burned through 25 billion tokens last year. He read the leaked code. Rewrote the entire thing in Python in 8 hours. His repo hit 30,000 stars faster than any GitHub project in history. Then he rewrote it again in Rust. That version now has 49,000 stars. Someone mirrored it to a decentralized platform with one message: “will never be taken down.” The code is permanent. Anthropic cannot get it back. Here’s the part I can’t stop thinking about: Anthropic built something called “Undercover Mode.” Its only job: prevent Claude from accidentally leaking internal secrets. They shipped an entire anti-leak system in their own product. Then leaked their own source code in a .map file. Irony is beautiful

@Smuckerdoodle6 @InezFeltscher Look, ultimately she is being pedantic , in the sense that she's arguing definitions. It's kind of important though. We can argue for govt provided healthcare, without incorrectly calling it insurance. Sidesteps the pedantic argument.

@Smuckerdoodle6 @InezFeltscher If you already had insurance, then yes as that would make sense. If you did not have insurance before pregnancy, then no. It's not an unknown risk. GEICO will rightfully deny giving you auto insurance if you have a scheduled "accident" coming up (or at minimum exclude it).

Yes. Insurance (risk based protection against future unknowable incidents) is not designed to cover things that have already happened and are certain to incur costs. Yes, this was a problem, but not one that can be solved by insurance. This is like signing up for car insurance the day after you crash and expecting them to pay out.

@Smuckerdoodle6 @InezFeltscher She's not arguing you don't need help. She's saying you don't know what the word insurance means.

@InezFeltscher That’s my point. Even many women who have babies don’t think about how the experience of other women may differ from theirs. I can’t believe people are actually arguing that pregnant women and unborn babies shouldn’t have access to healthcare. This is insane.

@callanable For sure. I don't know you or your life. It was just my first reaction. We can always all do better and be better for others in our lives, even if they are a fit as is

@CollinsKiandra I understand why you might think that, I’ve asked myself the same many times. I’m not perfect but the problems I had were different from the thoughts I internalized. I’m sure they believed that about me, but that’s because I wasn’t right for them (and vice versa)

it's been almost six months since I did something... admittedly inadvisable: moved across the country to live with a guy I met online a few months prior and had spent under three weeks with in person. I'm reflecting after an NYC visit, where my last three relationships ended. I'd moved in with boyfriends before—deliberately, we gone apartment hunting, ostensibly preparing to build our lives together. each time after moving in, I was so excited to make it my home. each time, I'd thought found my person—no more tiptoeing around inconsiderate roommates! each time, things went wrong. they complained that they didn't feel "at home" with me. that I took up too much space, made them small. I tried so hard to include them in decorating decisions, but they never wanted to be involved—they just got upset whenever I made any changes to the home. and they left me thinking I was controlling, dominant, unsafe. so this summer, I found myself sleeping in the attic over my dad's garage, surrounded by the vestiges of those failed homes. a lazy susan I bought for that deep kitchen cabinet, a whiteboard calendar with last month's dates on it, hanging closet organizers without a closet to hang in. it had happened again. I put years into building a home and was now effectively homeless. I had many reasons to feel bitter, but it was obvious that my previous attempts were all wrong. past-me thought I could make anything work, but never asked "should I?" so, in that attic with no running water over my dad's garage, I began to recalibrate. I'd connected with someone here who I really liked; I'd slid into his DMs months earlier, and he'd been a gently supportive presence through the most destabilizing and brutal few months of my life. he saw me at my lowest and didn't flinch. he didn't pursue me or demand anything, but he didn't run away either. I basically handed him the book of Callan: here's all of my past, my flaws, my mistakes, my shame—please reject me now! (I do not recommend this, by the way.) and things progressed from there. fast-forward to October, I showed up to his house with a suitcase and my cat. we wanted to see if we could work as quickly as possible. (I can't say I recommend this either!) he said, "take up as much space as you want or need—whichever is larger." but in my head those voices from the previous living situations echoed: Callan is domineering, overbearing, scary, too much. so I sat on the floor on my laptop every day, staying small. I put on headphones even when he was at work. I said yes to everything no matter what. I shut off my preferences. I did chores only when he was out of the house, and when he did the dishes I feared he was cleaning "at me." he picked me up off the floor and put me on the couch. told me to play my music on the speakers. he asked "are you sure?" when I automatically said yes. he listened when I said what I like/dislike. he laughed when I asked if he was mad at me for not doing the dishes. so when I came home from NYC to find the house completely changed, I remembered how my exes hated when I rearranged or organized something, even if they later admitted it was an improvement. now, I'm on the other side, and it just... feels like love. it is love. after six months here, after so many years of being told I needed to be smaller, I'm still learning to take up space. sometimes you're not the bad things people call you, you're just trying to be right for the wrong people.

@ma1ybe "sex has consequences" is meant as a consequence. It's used to mitigate the autonomy argument. If you had no way to prevent pregnancy, the autonomy argument would hold more weight since it's its your life against others. But in real life it's more like an implied contract.

If abortion is illegal because "sex has natural consequences," then liver transplants for alcoholics and lung transplants for smokers should be illegal too because consequences of smoking/drinking darling are so consistent. Go argue with the wall.

@MarioNawfal True or not, fine. But why are you living in the west and the tone of your post is clearly anti-west. Self hatred or audience capture?

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's speed tonight surprised U.S. military analysts. They were supposed to have lost most of their missile launchers in last June's strikes. A 3rd of what they had before. That's the intelligence estimate. Yet they hit Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait and Israel simultaneously within hours. Either the intelligence was wrong about how many launchers survived. Or Iran had been secretly rebuilding for months. Or both.

@TerfSchool It's always fun to see the egomaniacs (feminists) and their replies. This isn't about women's suffrage. Your dad was just trying to teach you to be kind, which typically involves sacrificing exactly what you want a little to bring someone else's day up. Man or woman.

This reminded me of how *angry* my father was at me for not dancing with a boy who asked me in high school. I didn't like anything about him and wanted to hang with my friends, so I said, "No thanks." When I told my father he was enraged, "Do you know how much courage it took for him to walk over and ask you?" I was shocked. My feelings didn't matter. It was all about the boy and how he should have had access to me because he asked nicely.

@pick1oftheabove @RealDianeYap What do you mean you assumed the water line was slanted?

@RealDianeYap I'm a woman and I failed the tilted glass question by assuming the water line was slanted. Assuming women can assume and fail the question "Where would the sticker be if you tilted it?" seems like an even worse theory of mind leap

Thinking 40% of college women truly don't know how water responds when you tilt a bottle is a failure of theory of mind and curiosity. Those who get this wrong are likely interpreting the figure in A as a sticker. If you tilt a sticker that looks like that, the "water line" tilts with it. "A is a representation of x. In B, you have tilted the representation. How would the water line look?" versus "A is a representation of x. If you tilt x in the real world and B is a representation of that tilting, how would the water line look?"

@neilquinn @justinskycak This does not apply. He clearly has fancier apartment and eats out more, if you believe OP. So even with inflation, he had the chance to be flush with cash and keep his lifestyle stable.

@justinskycak In fairness the last 5 years really blew things up. $120k was significantly better not very long ago.

I know someone who felt pressed financially while living single on $70k, and thought all his problems would go away once he doubled his salary. He got a new job that pays $120k. Now he lives in a fancier apartment & keeps little in the fridge (eats out / orders in most meals), feels the same financial pressure, and thinks that pressure will go away once he starts making $200k.

@ryanflorence I am 100% for giving grace to parents and kids behaviors on flights. But changing a blown out diaper in the seat and not going to do that in the bathroom is just extremely bad behavior by that mother. I hope someone was making her uncomfortable with shame. Do that in the bathroom

@KC_Crypto_J @JTravisBaker @KurtSupeCPA Don't beat yourself up. I have a 4 and 7 year old. I basically didn't even have to teach them to be responsible with money. They immediately didn't want to spend it unless they really really wanted something. Different kids come preprogrammed differently, so it's not you failing.

I teach my kids about money and they are all under the age of 7. They are still in the spend it as fast as possible phase, but I’m starting to get my oldest to understand saving. By the time they are 18, they will respect money. My dad taught it to me and I’ll do the same. Clearly this kid was never taught the value of money. I’m curious if he ever had a job or always knew this money was there for him.

Grandmother is absolutely Furious. She'd been putting $5K/year into an investment account for her grandson since he was born. 18 years. $90K deposited. Grew to $215K. "This was supposed to teach him about investments. Help with college. Give him a real head start in life." Grandson turned 18 last month. $72K lifted truck. Moved into a luxury apartment with his girlfriend. Dropped out of college. No job. Living off the account, gone in less than a year. The money? Legally 100% his. Grandma has zero say. "I spent 18 years building that. He's blowing through it in 12 months." The problem: She set up a UTMA account (Uniform Transfers to Minors Act). The day he hits 18, he owns it completely. No conditions. No veto power. You wanted compounding? He learned depreciation. You wanted education? He wanted a sound system. What she SHOULD have done: Option 1: 529 plan With a 529, YOU control it forever: → College? Tax-free for education → No college? Roll $35K into a Roth IRA for them Buys a truck? Change beneficiary to another grandkid → Need it out? Pay taxes + 10% penalty on gains Option 2: Keep it in HER name Open a separate investment account. Gift assets to him over time—or when he proves he's responsible. Your money. Your timeline. Your conditions. Is losing 10% of gains to penalties better than losing 100% to an 18-year-old's judgment? With a UTMA: You fund their decisions at 18. 18 years building $215K. 12 months burning through it on a truck, luxury rent, and zero plan. The account structure you pick is the difference between funding their future and funding their mistakes.

@prinkasusa I doubt she did it out of selfishness, so the only other answer is that she isn't too socially adept. She got him what she wanted and not what he wanted. Classic childish mistake.

I saw a TikTok where a girl planned a surprise anniversary trip for her boyfriend. She saved for months, booked a small beach resort, decorated the room with their photos, and wrote him a long letter about how much she loved him and believed in him. She was shaking when she gave it to him because she really put her heart into it. He skimmed the letter, said “Thanks, babe,” and spent most of the trip on his phone playing games and talking to his friends. She kept smiling in the video, but later admitted in the comments that she cried alone in the bathroom that night. And honestly? That’s when I realized: some men don’t hate romance. They just don’t care enough about you to try.